The warmest, driest and lowest national park in California and Nevada recorded a preliminary high temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, according to the National Water Service (NWS). The full time of 134 degrees, reported more than 100 years ago, was also recorded in Death Valley.
It will be just as hot in Death Valley on Monday with a forecast height of 129 degrees, per the NWS. The agency warns people living in eastern California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah to limit their time outdoors to between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Nearly 60 million people in the U.S., from Arizona to the U.S.-Canada border, are under heat warning this week, watch as a warning, CNN meteorologist Tyler Mauldin said. The heat is the result of high pressure that is controlled over a large part of the West Coast.
Normally, the western and southwestern U.S. experience the North American monsoon at this time of year, said Daniel Berc, meteorologist warning for the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
But the monsoon has not evolved because it typically does so instead of heavy rainfall Death Valley is getting harder under high pressure, Berc told CNN.
It’s been a hot summer for many in the U.S. – last month was the hottest July on record for seven states along the East Coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Not too outdated, Death Valley also reported a height of 128 degrees last month – its hottest temperature (until this month) since 2013, NOAA reported.
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